Leopold Blonder (1893–1932) was an Austrian

art director Art director is a title for a variety of similar job functions in theater, advertising, marketing, publishing, fashion, live-action and animated film and television, the Internet, and video games. It is the charge of a sole art director to supe ...

active in the silent and early

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s.Rother p.236 He also directed five

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s during the early 1920s. He worked on several

mountain film A mountain film is a film genre that focuses on mountaineering and especially the battle of human against nature. In addition to mere adventure, the protagonists who return from the mountain come back changed, usually gaining wisdom and enlighten ...

s with

Arnold Fanck Arnold Fanck (6 March 1889 – 28 September 1974) was a German film director and pioneer of the mountain film genre. He is best known for the extraordinary alpine footage he captured in such films as '' The Holy Mountain'' (1926), '' The White H ...

and

Leni Riefenstahl Helene Bertha Amalie "Leni" Riefenstahl (; 22 August 1902 – 8 September 2003) was a German film director, Film producer, producer, screenwriter, Film editing, editor, photographer, and actress. She is considered one of the most controversial ...

Selected filmography

* '' The Mountaineers'' (1924) * '' The Holy Mountain'' (1926) * ''

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'' (1927) * '' The Curse of Vererbung'' (1927) * '' Knights of the Night'' (1928) * ''

Ariadne in Hoppegarten ''Ariadne in Hoppegarten'' is a 1928 German silent sports film directed by Robert Dinesen and starring Alfred Abel, Maria Jacobini and Paul Henckels.Bock & Bergfelder p. 193 It takes place in Hoppegarten, a traditional centre of horseracing in ...

'' (1928) * '' The Way Through the Night'' (1929) * '' Two People'' (1930) * '' Storm Over Mont Blanc'' (1930) * '' Mountains on Fire'' (1931) * '' White Ecstasy'' (1931) * '' The Blue Light'' (1932) * '' The Rebel'' (1932) * ''

The Dancer of Sanssouci ''The Dancer of Sanssouci'' () is a 1932 German historical drama film directed by Frederic Zelnik and starring Otto Gebühr, Lil Dagover, and Rosa Valetti. Set at the court of Frederick the Great, the film is part of a group of Prussian films ...

'' (1932)

References

Bibliography

* Rother, Rainer. ''Leni Riefenstahl: The Seduction of Genius''. Bloomsbury Publishing, 2003.

External links

* 1893 births 1932 deaths Austrian art directors Austrian film directors Film people from Vienna Film directors from Vienna {{Austria-bio-stub